YouVoter - A Secure e-voting System Using Blockchain Technology

Electronic voting (e-voting) is a symbol of modern democracy activities. Due to the high ballot privacy and verifiability e-voting system has been booming in recent years. Existing electronic voting systems all suffer from a serious design flaw: They are centralized by design meaning there is a single supplier that controls the code base the database and the system outputs while also supplying the monitoring tools to verify the result. The lack of an independently verifiable output makes it difficult for these centralized systems to acquire the trustworthiness required by voters thus potentially limiting voter participation or cast doubt upon the published output of an election. To provide an immutable verifiable and secure online voting system we intend to leverage the availability of the Blockchain as a secure transaction database. From this public ledger voters will be able to independently audit the inclusion of their vote and the outcome of the election as a whole while being sure that the results cannot be changed due to the immutability of the Blockchain.